Sahih Muslim — Hadith 6724
Sahih
Sahih Muslim : 6724
This hadith has been reported on the authority of A'mash with the same chain of transmitters and in the hadith transmitted on the authority of Waki' (the words are):
حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَإِسْحَقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ كِلَاهُمَا عَنْ جَرِيرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ ح و حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ أَخْبَرَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَ ح و حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْأَشَجُّ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ ح و حَدَّثَنَاه عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُعَاذٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ بْنُ الْحَجَّاجِ كُلُّهُمْ عَنْ الْأَعْمَشِ بِهَذَا الْإِسْنَادِ قَالَ فِي حَدِيثِ وَكِيعٍ إِنَّ خَلْقَ أَحَدِكُمْ يُجْمَعُ فِي بَطْنِ أُمِّهِ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً و قَالَ فِي حَدِيثِ مُعَاذٍ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْمًا وَأَمَّا فِي حَدِيثِ جَرِيرٍ وَعِيسَى أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْمًا.
The creation of any one of you is like this that (semen) is collected in the womb of the mother for forty nights, and in the hadith transmitted on the authority of Shu'ba (the words are): Forty nights and forty days. And in the hadith transmitted on the authority of Jarir and 'Isa (the words are): Forty days.